The members of the Cluster have vast (inter)national networks, not only in the Dutch academic world, but also beyond. Via its lecture series, trainings, databases, projects, conferences, summer programmes and fundamental and applied research, and because of its unique place in the centre of The Hague’s international legal and political community, members of the Cluster work with high-level scholars and professionals on a regular basis, from, for instance:

The Cluster’s coordinator, Christophe Paulussen, is also coordinating the inter-university cooperation programme in the field of international humanitarian law and international criminal law: the International Humanitarian and Criminal Law (IHCL) Platform. For more information about this programme, see here.

Activities

Besides more academic activities, such as editing and writing books and research papers, such as the Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law, the journal Security and Human Rights, ICCT research papers and ICCT commentaries, see here, the Cluster is involved in various activities involving the dissemination of information related to public international law. To provide a few examples:

PIL researchers are at the forefront of international developments as described above. They are frequently called upon by the (inter)national press to provide expert opinions on public international law-related issues, such as on new ICJ cases, on the developments in the Ukraine, on the successes and failures of the tribunals or recently, on foreign fighters. A few examples can be found here: